Attorneys

Eric C. Osterberg

Eric Osterberg is the founder of Osterberg LLC. Eric has litigated a wide range of cases in federal courts across the country on issues of concern to intellectual property owners and users including:

international and domestic copyright infringement

patent and design patent infringement

trade secret disputes

trademark and trade dress infringement

breaches of entertainment industry contracts

counterfeiting

false advertising

His clients include copyright, patent and trademark owners and users in a variety of industries, software providers and licensees, music publishers, songwriters, collective licensing societies, record companies, print publishers and authors, motion picture studios, television and motion picture producers, advertising agencies, Internet service and telecommunications providers, and clothing designers and manufacturers. He has helped a number of those clients establish a social media presence and formulate policies relating to their use of social media. His transactional expertise includes negotiating and drafting: trademark and copyright licenses for a wide range of uses; software licenses including for SaaS; and vendor agreements, particularly with respect to software and website development.

Eric serves as “outside general counsel” to several start-ups and helps a variety of new businesses identify which of their legal challenges and opportunities require immediate attention and which can be addressed later in the business cycle. In that capacity, he also helps businesses formulate privacy policies and terms of service for their websites, and evaluate IP, product liability and advertising risks with respect to the launch of new products.

Before Osterberg LLC

Eric began his career in New York City with his father in 1993 at the intellectual property boutique Abeles Clark Osterberg & Prager. Later, Eric worked in the New York City offices of two large firms where he continued focusing on intellectual property litigation, licensing and counseling. Eventually, he started his own firm in Stamford, CT before moving to Boston in 2014.

Beyond the Courtroom

Eric is a frequent lecturer and has published numerous articles on copyright law. He is co-author of “Substantial Similarity In Copyright Law” (PLI 2003-2016), a treatise devoted to the analysis of the ways in which courts compare works in copyright infringement cases. He is part of the group that drafted the ABA model jury instructions for copyright infringement cases (published spring 2008).

Eric served a three-year term on the editorial board of the AIPLA Quarterly Journal. Eric and other members of the editorial board were responsible for selecting articles for the publication, which presents materials related to intellectual property matters.

Bar Admissions

Connecticut
New York
Massachusetts

Court Admissions

U.S. Court of Appeals for the First, Second, Third, Seventh, Eighth and Federal Circuits
U.S. District Courts for the District of Connecticut, District of Massachusetts and the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York

Volunteer

Northwestern University Alumni Admission Council 2006-Present.
Boston Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts 2015-Present.
Town of Wilton, CT Water Pollution Control Authority 2013-2014.
Town of Wilton Planning and Zoning Commission 2007-2010.
Town of Wilton Committee on Elderly Tax Relief 2007.